Chapter 8: Give Him a Little Shock
As the weather gets warmer, a Latin song with cheerful tune and passionate melody is quickly spreading around the world.
Even in China where football is not very developed, the children in the government kindergarten have been humming in Xu Cheng's ears these days.
“Enough, enough, enough!”
“Oh tired, oh tired, oh tired!”
Several times more popular than "The Lone Warrior", this World Cup theme song "Cup of Life", which is a perfect match for football, has always been hailed as one of the most popular World Cup theme songs.
Its melody is announcing that the passionate summer is coming, as well as the exciting football festival - the World Cup.
The host of this World Cup is France, and the match schedule is quite tight. Xu Cheng has been planning to stay up late to watch the games these days.
Because I was still young in my previous life, my impression was limited to its theme song. It was only after I fell in love with football that I realized how exciting the World Cup was that year.
The first expansion was to 32 teams, with all the top teams participating and a star-studded cast... There were no Messi or Ronaldo yet, this era belonged to Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham...
There is simply no reason not to watch it!
But forget about football betting. Legal football lottery was only introduced thanks to the Chinese national football team's qualification for the 2002 World Cup. It's not available yet.
Of course, apart from coming up with plans for watching the game, Xu Cheng spends almost all of his time selling the toys he purchased.
He was running a legitimate business, and he was fair in price. He sold his products to children from families he thought were well-off. Through his unique sales strategy, he barely had to push the products forward; the products were passed around among a few children , and were sold out in the kindergarten.
After lunch that day , Xu Cheng lay on the bed and pretended to sleep for a while. After Teacher Xiaoyang checked him, he lifted the quilt and pushed Lin Wanzhou who was lying next to him.
"Teacher Xiaoyang is gone... Stop pretending to be asleep..."
After pushing for a long time, Lin Wanzhou finally turned around. She rubbed her eyes sleepily and stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, "Sorry... I really fell asleep..."
Lin Wanzhou was not on the bed originally arranged by the teacher, and Xu Cheng didn't know what method she used to replace the little girl who was originally lying next to him. The young boy easily accomplished the small achievement of "sleeping in the same bed" with his childhood sweetheart.
The two of them climbed down from the bed quietly and slipped into the empty classroom.
The classroom was empty in the afternoon, with the few dozen tables and chairs placed in a mess. There were still some unerased blackboard notes from Teacher Xiaoyang teaching arithmetic. The sunlight poured in through the clean glass, making it warm and quiet.
Sneaking into the space under the table, Lin Wanzhou's little face flushed, and Xu Cheng's heartbeat accelerated. It sounded particularly clear in the quiet environment, giving him a suffocating feeling as if he had done something bad.
He took out a handful of change from his pocket and whispered to Lin Wanzhou, "Here, this time we made a total of 85 yuan from the other kids. You hold 50% of the shares of Qiangsheng Group, so your half of the dividend is 42.5 yuan. But because you have to develop a good habit of paying transaction tax, I will deduct 2.5 yuan from you, and the total will be 40 yuan."
He handed the 40 yuan in loose change to Lin Wanzhou. Lin Wanzhou didn't understand how Xu Cheng calculated it, and didn't understand why after all the operations, the 50 yuan she contributed suddenly became 40 yuan less by 10 yuan. Anyway, she was very happy to receive the money. She folded the money with a sense of accomplishment and put it neatly into her pink wallet.
"Xu Cheng, this company is so fun! You make more money than my dad!"
Xu Cheng's face turned red, and I said, "I'll just take it as a compliment."
"Haha! I caught you!"
A shrill sound suddenly appeared in the quiet classroom.
The annoying little fat boy Li Qiuyang secretly followed them at some point, with two big snots hanging from his nose, pointing at Xu Cheng excitedly as if he had discovered some big secret.
"Xu Cheng, I'm going to tell Teacher Xiaoyang right away that you cheated everyone out of their money! You bad boy, just wait for your scolding. Teacher Xiaoyang will never like you again!"
"Li Qiuyang, what nonsense are you talking about! Xu Cheng didn't cheat me!" Lin Wanzhou seemed very angry. "Xu Cheng earned the money by doing business!"
"Humph! Who are you kidding? Xu Cheng obviously can't even do arithmetic. Last time, he was the only one who couldn't do the math problems assigned by Teacher Xiaoyang."
"You're talking nonsense!"
"Okay, okay..." Xu Cheng stopped the angry Lin Wanzhou and looked at Li Qiuyang beside him with a smile, "Are you good at math?"
"Of course I can! I'm the math king of the senior class in the government kindergarten. Even Teacher Xiaoyang said that the motherland is my hope for the future. I'm much better than you, a pants-wetting genius!" Li Qiuyang said proudly.
"Oh, then I'll give you a question."
"There are seven monkeys on the tree and one monkey on the ground. How many monkeys are there in total?"
Li Qiuyang counted on his fingers for a long time, and finally raised his hands and shouted proudly, "Hehehe, it's too easy, too easy, do you think it can be difficult for me? There are eight monkeys in total!"
"wrong."
Li Qiuyang's eyes widened in disbelief, and he counted with his fingers, "That's right! It's eight!"
Lin Wanzhou pulled Xu Cheng's clothes in confusion and whispered in his ear, "Xu Cheng, he got it right, 1+7 equals 8..."
"If you say he's wrong, then he's wrong." Xu Cheng smiled, "There's a monkey riding on the tree, and there's a monkey on the ground. There are obviously only two monkeys."
It took Li Qiuyang a long time to react that it was "qi" instead of "qi".
“Damn it… How could this happen?” Li Qiuyang’s face was about to swell up like a ball. He felt as if he had been attacked by some strange alien creature in his professional field. “No! No! Come on, if you can, come on! I will definitely not make a mistake!”
"Okay." Xu Cheng looked at him with a smile, "Tell me, there are seven monkeys on the tree and one monkey on the ground. How many monkeys are there in total?"
"Two!" Li Qiuyang looked at Xu Cheng with a smug look on his face, "Hehe, do you think I'm a child, Xu Cheng? Just now you told me that there was a monkey riding on the tree, don't try to fool me again."
"Wrong." Xu Cheng shook his head. "There are seven on the tree and one on the ground. 1+7 equals 8. You can't even do single-digit calculations, and you still say you're good at math. You're so weak..."
"Ah? What? Not riding? Damn it!" Li Qiuyang seemed to be transforming into a Super Saiyan. His little face turned red, his nose kept running, and he kept sniffing.
"Damn it, I'm so pissed off! I'm so pissed off! The last one doesn't count, here comes another one! The King of Calculation will not be easily defeated by the evil pants-wetting spirit!"
"Li Qiuyang, Xu Cheng, Lin Wanzhou, what are you three doing in the classroom instead of taking a nap?"
The classroom door was opened, and a bald male life teacher stood at the door with a stern face, looking seriously at the three children in the classroom.
"Wow, teacher, Xu Cheng cheated everyone's money and he also bullied me!" Li Qiuyang cried and complained to Teacher Xiaoyang.
"Xu Cheng? Is what Li Qiuyang said true?"
"I didn't bully him, and I didn't cheat him out of money. I just gave him a few math problems, and I earned the money myself."
